Research in Software Engineering and High Performance Computing

Software Engineering and High Performance Computing

This area is growing both in terms of staff research and consultancy. Examples included

·         PhD studentship with GE Aviation on model-based software design.
·         Mobile App developed for both small and large organisations (for example Northampton County Council).

Resources

·         Eye Tracking software for usability testing of software, video, electronic promotional material and websites.
·         Software for developing mobile applications.
·         High Performance Computing via NVision server cluster

Recent Publications

• The adoption of e-government in Arab Countries - The case of Libya (Yousef Forti, Kamal Bechkoum, Scott J Turner, Suraj Ajit), InProceedings of the 14th European Conference on e-Government ECEG 2014, A Ionas (eds.), Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, Reading UK, pp. 319--326, 2014. 
• Web sustainability (Scott J Turner), In Computing Research Seminar, 2014. 
• Case studies in web sustainability (Scott J Turner), In Ariadne, volume 70, 2012. 
• Influencing students' construction of personalised concept maps through the use of query expansion (QE) searching of the World Wide Web (Kieran McGovern, Peter Mothersole, Scott J Turner), In Learning Global - Fourth Learning \& Teaching Conference, 2011.
• The subjective measurement of leather handle by descriptive sensory analysis (Geoff E Attenburrow, Y Wang, Philip Picton, Scott J Turner), In Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, volume April, pp. 134--139, 2011. 
• Predicting leather handle like an expert by artificial neural networks (Y Wang, Philip Picton, Scott J Turner, Geoff E Attenburrow), InApplied Artificial Intelligence, volume 25, pp. 180--192, 2011. 
• QoS-aware service selection (James Xue, S A Jarvis), In Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing, Nathan Griffiths, Kuo-Ming Chao (eds.), Springer, London, pp. 225--250, 2010. 
• Supporting Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia (M. Hendrix), PhD thesis,The University of Warwick, 2010. 
• Continuous use of Authoring for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia: A Long-term Case Study (J.G.K. Foss, A. I. Cristea, M. Hendrix), In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2010, IEEE, 2010. 
• GRAPPLE: Personalization and Adaptation in Learning Management Systems (P. De Bra, D. Smits, K. van der Sluijs, A. I. Cristea, M. Hendrix, other members of the GRAPPLE Research Team), In ED-MEDIA 2010-World Conference on Educational Multimedia Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2010. 
• Model-driven server allocation in distributed enterprise systems (James Xue, A P Chester, L He, S A Jarvis), In 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems (ABIS 2009), 2009. 
• Model-driven server allocation in distributed enterprise systems (James Xue, A P Chester, L He, S A Jarvis), In Communications of SIWN, volume 6, pp. 42--50, 2009. 
• Design of the CAM model and authoring tool (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), In A3H workshop ECTEL2009, Springer LNCS, 2009. 
• Design and Development of an Authoring Tool for Pedagogical Relationship Types between Concepts (D. Albert, A. Nussbaumer, C. M. Steiner, M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), In Proceedings of the The 17th International Conference on Computers in Education ICCE 2009, IEEE, 2009. 
• GAT: The FP7 GRAPPLE Authoring Tool Set (M. Hendrix, A. Nussbaumer, M. Dicerto, L. Oneto, A. I. Cristea), In ECTEL 2009 Demonstrations, 2009.
• Comparative Analysis of Adaptation in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia and IMS-Learning Design Technical Report RR443 Department of Computer Science The University of Warwick (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea, D. Burgos), , 2009. 
• Adaptation languages for learning: the CAM meta-model (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea, C. Stewart), In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2009, IEEE, 2009.   
• LAG 2.0: Refining a reusable Adaptation Language and Improving on its Authoring (A. I. Cristea, D. Smits, J. Bevan, M. Hendrix), Inproceedings of Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning ECTEL 2009, IEEE, 2009.   
• A system for dynamic server allocation in application server clusters (A P Chester, James Xue, L He, S A Jarvis), In 24th UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW 2008), 2008. 
• Reuse Patterns in Adaptation Languages: Creating a meta-level for the LAG adaptation language (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), InAdaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive web-based systems AH2008, Springer LNCS, 2008.   
• A meta level to LAG for Adaptation Language re-use (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), In A3H workshop AH2008, Springer LNCS, 2008. 
• Defining adaptation in a generic multi layer model: CAM: The GRAPPLE Conceptual Adaptation Model (M. Hendrix, P. De Bra, M. Pechenizkiy, D. Smits, A. I. Cristea), In Converging from differnet backgrounds proceedings of Third European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning ECTEL 2008, Springer LNCS, 2008.   
• Meta-Levels of Adaptation in Education (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), In Proc. of the Computers and Advanced Technology in Education 2008, IASTED, 2008. 
• Defining adaptation in a generic multi layer model: CAM: The GRAPPLE Conceptual Adaptation Model Technical Report RR442 Department of Computer Science The University of Warwick (M. Hendrix, P. De Bra, M. Pechenizkiy, D. Smits, A. I. Cristea), , 2008.
• A Spiral Model for Adding Automatic Adaptive Authoring to Adaptive Hypermedia (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), In Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), volume 14, pp. 2799-2818, 2008.   
• Collaborative Adaptation Authoring and Social Annotation in MOT (F. Ghali, A. I. Cristea, M. Hendrix), In A3H workshop AH2008, Springer LNCS, 2008. 
• Augmenting e-Learning Standards with Adaptation (F. Ghali, A. I. Cristea, M. Hendrix), In Proc. of the Computers and Advanced Technology in Education 2008, IASTED, 2008. 
• Object-oriented Programming Languages: Interpretation (Iain D Craig), , 2007. 
• Formal Refinement for Operating System Kernels (Iain D Craig), , 2007. 
• Evaluating the automatic and manual creation process of adaptive lessons (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea, M. Joy), In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ICALT 2007, IEEE, 2007.   
• A qualitative and quantitative evaluation of Adaptive authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), In Proceedings of Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning ECTEL 2007, Springer LNCS, 2007.   
• Evaluating Adaptive authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea), In Proceedings of the 5th Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia workshop at the User Modelling (UM2007) conference Greece, 2007. 
• Authoring Adaptive Educational Hypermedia on the Semantic Desktop (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea, W. Nejdl), In International Journal of Learning Technology (IJLT), volume 3, pp. 230-251, 2007. 
• Adaptive authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia (M. Hendrix), MSc thesis,Eindhoven University of Technology Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science, 2006. 
• Authoring Adaptive Learning Material on the Semantic Desktop (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea, W. Nejdl), In A3H workshop AH2006, 2006.
• Automatic and Manual Annotation Using Flexible Schemas for Adaptation on the Semantic Desktop (M. Hendrix, A. I. Cristea, W. Nejdl), In Proceedings of First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning ECTEL 2006, Springer LNCS, 2006.   
• A Pattern-Knowledge Base Supported Establishment of Inter-Organizational Business Processes (A. Norta, M. Hendrix, P. Grefen), InProceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling Inter-Organizational Systems focusing on Collaboration and Interoperability Architectures and Ontologies (MIOS-CIAO'06), 2006. 

To find out more contact: Scott Turner

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